Upper West Side, Manhattan

Upper West Side, Manhattan: who lived here from 1910 to today. In 1910 the largest group was Irish (32%). Today it is English, Scottish & Welsh (10%). Every dot is 25 people, colored by where their families came from.

Where New York Came From: a map of NYC immigration and ancestry, 1910 to today

All stories

• Harlem and the Great Migration
• From Italian Harlem to El Barrio
• Brooklyn's Nordic waterfront
• Finns, Lithuanians and Estonians
• New York's three Chinatowns
• The Lower East Side
• Jewish New York
• Little Odessa
• Redlining's long shadow
• Italian New York
• Washington Heights and Dominican New York
• German New York
• South Asian Queens
• Greek Astoria
• A century in seven stops